Is it possible to have the background color on EVERY page be the color of the worst issue?
That is, if any service is yellow, shouldn't all pages have a yellow background so that no matter what system or service you are looking at you know that something is yellow somewhere. (same goes for purple or red)
I thought I read with the all-in-one patch that the background color now mimics the way Big Brother worked. Perhaps I misread.
Is this a switch I missed somewhere?
Thanks
-- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC
It is the worst condition on that page. For example, if the page you're looking at has 10 hosts and any of them are red, the bg is red. It won't take conditions from other pages, though. This way if you look at a specific test for a specific host it shows you the condition of that test.
Josh
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Bill Arlofski <waa-hobbitml at revpol.com> wrote:
Is it possible to have the background color on EVERY page be the color of the worst issue?
That is, if any service is yellow, shouldn't all pages have a yellow background so that no matter what system or service you are looking at you know that something is yellow somewhere. (same goes for purple or red)
I thought I read with the all-in-one patch that the background color now mimics the way Big Brother worked. Perhaps I misread.
Is this a switch I missed somewhere?
Thanks
-- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC
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Josh Luthman wrote:
It is the worst condition on that page. For example, if the page you're looking at has 10 hosts and any of them are red, the bg is red. It won't take conditions from other pages, though. This way if you look at a specific test for a specific host it shows you the condition of that test.
Right...
I just checked a BB installation I have had in place for about 6 years and I see where my confusion may have come from.
I thought that the overall background color came from the 'worst' condition because of the following:
We (my old webmaster and I) created a simple integrated Big Brother/MRTG page that gave us quick access to the graphs of the key switches as well as the current overall status of Big Brother.
http://www.revpol.com/images/bigbrian1.png
When the left frame loads, the php script pulls in the main BB page, parses the background color and sets the background of the Big Brother link in the left frame to that color - so instantly we can see Big Brother's status without having its main page (or its non-green page) displayed.
The "main" Big Brother page at this site consists of several summary links http://www.revpol.com/images/bigbrian2.png so our Big Brother link in the left frame always showed us the color of the worst condition.
Sorry for the confusion!
P.S. That old Big Brother installation is slated for a hobbit migration this summer. :)
-- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC
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